wow cataclysm engineering leveling guide 1
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WoW Cataclysm Engineering Leveling Guide 1-525
Engineering is the most unique and (imo) the most fun WoW profession but it does require a
lot of gold to make the really awesome items. If you are going to do Engineering you’ll
probably want to have A LOT of GOLD so CHECK OUT THIS GUIDE out if you are running low
on it.
This Engineering Leveling Guide is updated for patch 4.0.3a and Cataclysm.
This is a engineering leveling guide to get you from 1-525. It provides a method of leveling up
your engineering, which has been selected for its low cost and simplicity. However, no matter
what, leveling engineering is going to be awfully expensive to grind. It is well worth it though,
as it is one of the most hilarious and enjoyable professions in PvP with awesome items like the
Discombulator Ray.
In some instances you will have to keep some of the engineering materials you craft to use
them later down the road in this leveling guide so I highly recommend that you keep
components based off expansion. Everything you make from 1 to 300 from engineering keep
until you reach 300 and it might be safe to sell. Then keep everything you make from 300-
350, once you hit 350 you'll be switching to Northrend stuff, and once you hit 425 you can sell
the Northrend stuff. I will try to make a note to tell you what stuff to keep when possible. Also,
this is going to get very expensive unless you're farming your own materials, make sure you
have this guide available to you.
What's in this Engineering Leveling Guide: Apprentice Engineering Leveling 1-75 Journeyman Engineering Leveling 75-125 Expert Engineering Leveling 125-225 Artisan Engineering Leveling 200-300 Master Engineering Leveling 300-350 Grand Master Engineering Leveling 350-425 Illustrious Engineering Leveling 425-525
It is highly advised that before you start this engineering leveling guide you pickup
a Gnomish Army Knife off of the auction house. They are extremely cheap and can
be used in place of the tools you will create in Engineering that are required to do
certain crafts. If you don't get one pay attention to what's missing when you try to
follow these steps and make the tool that is needed.
Apprentice Engineering (Leveling 1-75)
This is a very easy section of the engineering guide to go through. There's 3 steps and you
only need copper bars and rough stones to complete it.
Level Item Mats
1-30 30-40 Rough Blasting Powder 30-40 Rough Stones
30-55 60 Handful of Copper Bolt 60 Copper Bars
You'll need 60 Handfuls of Copper Bolts later, making all of these will probably get you higher than level
55.
55-75 20 Copper Tubes 40 Copper Bars, 20 Weak Flux
Weak flux is bought from Engineering Supplies NPC
Journeyman Engineering (Leveling 75-125)
For this section of the engineering leveling guide, make sure you save all your blasting powder
until you're sure you don't need it. You're going to start spending a lot of gold in this section of
the guide, if you don't have a lot I recommend you read this guide before continuing.
Level Item Mats
75-76 1 Arclight Spanner 6 Copper Bar
Only if you don't already have a Gnomish Army Knife
76-95 30 Coarse Blasting Powder 30 Coarse Stones
95-100 5-7 Coarse Dynamite 15-21 Coarse Blasting Powder, 5-7
Linen Cloth
100-125 25-30 Practice Lock 25-30 Bronze Bar, 50-60 Handfull of
Copper Bolt, 25-30 Weak Flux
If you run out of Copper Bolts, you can make Bronze Tube as a backup, it costs a little more but is much
easier than going back to make more Copper Bolts.
Expert Engineering (Leveling 125-225)
In this section you will need a lot of Bronze and Mithril. Pay attention to what items to keep
and which to discard so that you don't end up missing something you need.
Level Item Mats
125-140 40 Heavy Blasting Powder 40 Heavy Stone
Craft exactly 40 of these and save them for later.
140-150 20 Whirring Bronze Gizmo 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Wool Cloth
Save 20 of these for the next step.
150-155 20 Bronze Framework 40 Bronze Bar, 13 Medium Leather, 13
Wool Cloth
Save 20 of these for the next step.
155-175 20 Explosive Sheep 40 Bronze Bar, 20 Medium Leather, 20
Wool Cloth
175-195 60 Solid Blasting Powder 120 Solid Stones
195-200 5-8 Mithril Tubes 15-24 Mithril Bars
Artisan Engineering (Leveling 200-300)
Before you continue past 200 head to the trainer and learn Artisan Engineering so you don't
forget, the next two steps involve making materials for the third so make sure you read the
notes. Considering all the Mithril and Thorium it costs to reach level 300, this is where things
get really expensive. It takes me quite awhile of farming to get that many bars for leveling and
I don't find it enjoyable to mine it all myself so what I've been doing is using some of the tips
in this gold guide to just make enough money and buy the bars off the auction house. There
are some tips in there that require very little time to make a lot of gold. I find it a lot easier to
focus on leveling my engineering and being able to write a guide for it if I don't have to farm
the mats.
Level Item Mats
200-215 20 Unstable Triggers 20 Mithril Bars, 20 Mageweave Cloth,
20 Solid Blasting Powder
Make at least 20 of these and save them for the next few steps
215-235 30-40 Mithril Casing 90-120 Mithril Bars
235-250 15-20 Hi-Explosive Bomb 30-40 Mithril Casings, 15-20 Unstable
Triggers, 30-40 Solid Blasting Powder
You may run out of Mithril Casing before reaching 250, if you do just go back to the previous step and
make some more
250-260 15-30 Dense Blasting Powder 30-60 Dense Stones
260-286 26-30 Thorium Widgets 78-90 Thorium Bars, 26-30 Runecloth
286-300 14-16 Thorium Tubes 84-96 Thorium Bars
Master Engineering (Leveling 300-350)
At this point in the guide you'll start using materials from the Outlands, it's now safe to sell or
discard all of the extra stuff you've made so far. If you haven't already you really should be
using this gold guide, since it will help you a lot when it comes to finding the Cobalt and
Saronite you'll need in the next section.
Level Item Mats
300-315 60 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts 60 Fel Iron Bars
Make 60 of these for the next few steps of the guide
300-315
20 Fel Iron Casings
60 Fel Iron Bars
Make 20 of these for the next few steps of the guide
300-315
12 Elemental Blasting Powder
12 Motes of Fire, 24 Motes of Earth
You will receive 4 Elemental Blasting Powder per craft. Save all of these for the following steps
315-320
5 Fel Iron Bombs
5 Fel Iron Casing, 10 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 5 Elemental Blasting Powder
320-325
5 Fel Iron Musket
15 Fel Iron Casing, 30 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts
325-335
10 Adamantite Grenades
40 Adamantite Bars, 20 Handful of Fel Iron Bolts, 10 Elemental Blasting Powder
335-350
20-65 White Smoke Flares
20-65 Elemental Blasting Powder, 20-65 Netherweave Cloth
You can buy this recipe at these vendors:http://www.wowhead.com/item=23811#sold-by. It is a limited
supply recipe so it may not be available all the time. You might have to travel around to more than one of
these locations before you find one for sale.
Grand Master Engineering (Leveling 350-425)
Now it's time to head into the Wrath of the Lich King section of Engineering. Here you will
need a lot of Cobalt and Saronite. These materials will be expensive on the auction house
since very few people go to Northrend anymore. I can't stress enough how important it was for
me to use this gold guide as I spent thousands of gold to level up my Engineering, I'm very
thankful the money was easy to come by.
Level
Item
Mats
350-365
25 Handful of Cobalt Bolts
50 Cobalt Bars
Make and save at least 45 of these (you will average 2 per craft).
365-375
15-20 Volatile Blasting Triggers
45-60 Cobalt Bars, 15-20 Crystallized Water
Make and save at least 30 of these (you will get 2 per craft).
375-385 10-15 Overcharged Capacitors 40-60 Cobalt Bars, 10-15 Crystallized
Earth
Make and save at least 10 of these.
385-390 5-8 Explosive Decoys 5-8 Frostweave Cloth, 15-24 Volatile
Blasting Triggers
390-401 15 Froststeel Tubes 120 Cobalt Bars, 15 Crystallized Water
You will need 14-15 of these from 401-425.
401-405 4-5 Diamond-cut Refractor Scopes 4-5 Froststeel Tubes, 8-10
Handfuls of Cobalt Bolts
405-415 10-13 Box of Bombs 50-65 Saronite Bars, 10-13 Volatile
Blasting Triggers
415-420 5 Mana Injector Kits Kits 60 Saronite Bars, 10 Crystallized
Water
420-425 5 Noise Machine 10 Froststeel Tubes, 10 Overcharged
Capacitors, 40 Handfuls of Cobalt Bolts
Illustrious Engineering (Leveling 425-525)
Now it's time to head into Cataclysm! You can get rid of all the extra trade goods you've
crafted and bought up until this point. From here on out you're going to need a lot of Obsidium
and Elementium which both cost quite a bit. If you're having problems making gold, you
should read gold guide to learn all the best ways to get rich.
Level Item Mats
425-442 20 Handfuls of Obsidium Bolts 40 Obsidium Bars
Save all of these for later, this should be enough to reach 525
442-445 1 Electrostatic Condenser 4 Obsidium Bars, 6 Handfuls of
Obsidium Bolts, 4 Volatile Earth
445-460 15-17 Electrified Ether 30-34 Volatile Air
460-470 2 R19 Threatfinder 12 Obsidium Bars, 4 Alicite, 12
Handfuls of Obsidium Bolts
470-475 1 High-Powered Bolt Gun 10 Obsidium Bars, 8 Handfuls of
Obsidium Bolts, 4 Electrified Ether
475-495 4 Elementium Toolbox 60 Elementium Bars, 48 Volatile Earth
495-510 3 Finely-Tuned Throat Needler 12 Obsidium Bars, 6 Electrified Ether,
15 Hardened Elementium Bars
510-521 11-13 Heat Treated Spinning Lure 11-13 Handfuls of Obsidium
Bolts, 44-52 Elementium Bars, 11-13 Volatile Fire
521-525 1 Gnomish X-Ray Scope 2 Hardened Elementium Bars, 2
Dream Emerald
WoW Cataclysm Leatherworking Leveling Guide 1-525
Leatherworking is supplemented by Skinning and Skinning can take a really long time to level.
My recommendation is to buy leather on the auction house to use for your leveling
Leatherworking while doing this guide. If you don't think you have enough gold or think that it
would be a waste to buy mats instead of farming them look at this guide.
This Leatherworking Leveling Guide is updated for patch 4.0.3a and Cataclysm.
This leatherworking leveling guide takes the most practical and common sense approach to
leveling your leatherworking to 525 as easy as possible. If you notice another item to make at
certain points in the guide that is cheaper for you while leveling, by all means go ahead and
use it instead of following the guide. Even though this leveling guide was designed to be as
cheap as possible it can still be expensive, if you have problems with gold while leveling, you
should check out this Gold Guide.
What's in this Leatherworking Leveling Guide: Apprentice Leatherworking Leveling 1-55 Journeyman Leatherworking Leveling 55-150 Expert Leatherworking Leveling 150-200 Artisan Leatherworking Leveling 200-300 Master Leatherworking Leveling 300-375 Grand Master Leatherworking Leveling 375-425 Illustrious Leatherworking Leveling 425-525
Apprentice Leatherworking (Leveling 1-55)
The first 75 levels is only 3 steps, don't get used to it though this is just the beginning of the
guide. Materials are cheap, to go past skill 75 make sure you visit the Leatherworking trainer
to continue leveling.
Start by making as much of your own Light Leather as you can based on the amount of Ruined
Leather on the auction house. Since you will use the resulting Light Leather, this can get you
up to level 20 at no cost.
Level Item Mats
1-30 29 Light Armor Kits 29 Light Leather
30-55 25-35 Handstitched Leather Boots 50-70 Light Leather
Journeyman Leatherworking (Leveling 55-150)
The guide is starts getting a little more complex now, remember to go past 55 you must head
to the trainer again in order to keep leveling. There's nothing fancy that goes on in this section
of the guide, you will start to see the cost increase as you move from light leather to medium
leather and the ingredients lists are using a lot more quantity, but this is completely normal
for leatherworking.
Level Item Mats
55-85 30 Embossed Leather Gloves 90 Light leather
85-100 15 Fine Leather Belts 90 Light Leather
Save these for later
100-115 20 Cured Medium Hide 20 Medium Hide
Save these. If you can't find Medium Hides make Fine Leather Belts and Medium Armor Kits
115-130 15 Dark Leather Boots 60 Medium Leather
130-145 15 Dark Leather Belt 15 Cured Medium Hides and 15 Fine
Leather Belts
145-150 5 Hillman's Shoulders 20 Medium Leather, 5 Cured Medium
Hides
Expert Leatherworking (Leveling 150-200)
This section of the leatherworking guide will get a bit more pricey as will the rest of the
leatherworking guide, if you're running short on gold you will need to use some of the advice
in this Gold Guide.
Level Item Mats
150-165 20 Cured Heavy Hide 20 Heavy Hide
If you can not find Heavy Hides, make 30-40 Heavy Armor Kits until 185 (150-200 Heavy Leather). At 185
make 20 Dusky Bracers until 205 (320 Heavy Leather).
165-180 15-20 Heavy Armor Kit 75-100 Heavy Leather
180-190 10 Barbaric Shoulders 80 Heavy Leather, 10 Cured Heavy
Hides
190-200 10 Guardian Gloves 40 Heavy Leather, 10 Cured Heavy
Hides
Artisan Leatherworking (Leveling 200-300)
Don't forget to go past 200 you need to hit up the trainer again to continue leveling
leatherworking. This part of the guide is going to be expense, there is no way around it. These
mobs are no longer farmed as much because at level 58 most people head to outlands and
there's no reason to stay around skinning these things. Going to tell you again that I used
this Gold Guide to redo this leatherworking guide and other guides because it is really
expensive, every time there's a significant update to leatherworking or other professions I
have to redo the entire leveling guide.
Level Item Mats
200-220 20 Thick Armor Kits 100 Thick Leather
220-235 15-25 Nightscape Headband 75-125 Thick Leather
235-250 15 Nightscape Pants 210 Thick Leather
250-265 15-20 Rugged Armor Kits 75-100 Rugged Leather
265-285 20 Wicked Leather Bracers 160 Rugged Leather
285-300 15 Wicked Leather Headbands 180 Rugged Leather
Master Leatherworking (Leveling 300-350)
Don't forget to go past 300 you need to hit up the master trainer who can only be found in the
outlands. This is the 2nd most expensive section of this guide so if you haven't already, check
out this Gold Guide.
Level Item Mats
300-310 20 Knothide Leather 100 Knothide Leather Scraps
310-325 15-25 Knothide Armor Kits 60-100 Knothide Leather
325-335 35 Heavy Knothide Leather 175 Knothide Leather
Save all of these, you will need them in the following steps.
335-340 5 Thick Draenic Vest 15 Heavy Knothide Leather
340-350 10 Scaled Draenic Boots 20 Heavy Knothide Leather, 20
Fel Scales
If you can't find any Fel Scales you can keep craftping Thick Draenic Vests until 350, but it will cost a lot
more Heavy Knothide Leather
Grand Master Leatherworking (Leveling 350-425)
Before you hear me repeat myself and say this is expensive, go ahead and take a look at the
mats summary list below. Now go to your auction house and price all of that up, then come
back and tell me you don't need a gold guide. Train Grand Master Leatherworking and get
started by crafting as much Borean Leather as you can based on the amount of Borean
Leather Scrap available on the auction house.
Level Item Mats
350-365 30 Borean Leather 150 Borean Leather Scraps
You can skip this step if there are not enough Borean Leather Scraps available at a low enough price
365-380 15-20 Borean Armor Kits 60-80 Borean Leather
380-385 5 Arctic Boots 40 Borean Leather
385-390 5 Arctic Belt 50 Borean Leather
390-405 110 Heavy Borean Leather 660 Borean Leather
405-420 15-20 Dark Frostscale Leggings 60-80 Heavy Borean Leather,
75-100 Crystallized Water
You can also make Dark Iceborne Leggings with the same amount of Crystallized Shadow. If there isnt'
enough Crystallized Water and Shadow on the auction house, skip to the next step.
420-425 5 Fur Lining 5 Arctic Fur or 50 Heavy Borean
Leather
You can apply this fur lining to your own gear. You can get Arctic Fur in Dalaran herefor 10 Heavy Borean
Leather.
Illustrious Leatherworking (Leveling 425-525)
Cataclysm's Illustrious Leatherworking requires about 1,000 Savage Leather and about 80
Volatile Fire or Waters. To continue past 510 you need to be level 84. Head to Twilight
Highlands and visit either Misty Merriweather (Alliance) or Threm Blackscalp (Horde) to learn
the 510-525 recipes.
Level Item Mats
425-445 30-50 Savage Leather 150-250 Savage Leather Scraps
Save these for later use, there is no harm in making extra since you will use all the Savage Leather.
445-450 5 Savage Armor Kit 25 Savage Leather
450-460 10 Tsunami Boots 70 Savage Leather
460-470 10 Savage Cloak 70 Savage Leather
470-475 5 Darkbrand Boots 50 Savage Leather
475-480 5 Scorched Leg Armor 30 Savage Leather, 20 Volatile
Fire
If Volatile Fire is too expensive you can keep making Tsunami Belts to 480
480-485 5 Twilight Leg Armor 30 Savage Leather, 20 Volatile
Water
If Volatile Water is too expensive you can make Tsunami Leggings with 35 Savage Leather
485-490 10-20 Heavy Savage Leather 50-100 Savage Leather
You will need up to 205 Heavy Savage Leather to reach 525. I recommend only making what you need to
get to 490 in case it takes less. Please e-mail feedback and let us know how much Heavy Savage Leather
it took you to reach 525!
490-510 25-30 Darkbrand Helm 125-150 Heavy Savage Leather
510-516 3 Bloodied Leather Bracers 30 Heavy Savage Leather, 30
Volatile Fire
There are 3 other options to choose from that cost the exact materials: Bloodied Leather Gloves, Bloodied
Wyrmhide Belt and Bloodied Wymrhide Bracers
516-520 2 Bloodied Leather Boots 20 Heavy Savage Leather, 20
Volatile Fire
There are 3 other options to choose from that cost the exact materials: Bloodied Leather Shoulders,
Bloodied Wyrmhide Boots and Bloodied Wyrmhide Gloves
520-525 3 Bloodied Leather Belt 30 Heavy Savage Leather, 30
Volatile Water
There are 3 other options to choose from that cost the exact materials: Bloodied Leather Helm, Bloodied
Wyrmhide Chest and Bloodied Wyrmhide Shoulders